Connect Your Meetings

AUGUST 15, 2017

For many organizations, using meetings procurement companies (aka, third-party planners) like HelmsBriscoe and ConferenceDirect for site selection, contracts and other meeting planning functions is crucial to executing a successful event. That’s why face-to-face industry events like Connect, MPI, PCMA, etc.

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Milestone Events Group

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Budget & Legal Contracts . Your planner can also review your contracts to make sure you understand all of the details, deposits, and cancellation clauses. . . After the venue selection process is complete, Milestone is also available to help produce events in a stress reduced and highly professional manner.

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Milestone Events Group

AUGUST 12, 2020

But if you love the details and want to be involved in selecting each vendor for your wedding, then a package may not allow you to be as creative as you would like to be. . A wedding package could be just the ticket if you are looking for ease in planning and are not interested in researching, contacting, and contracting with each vendor.

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Event Leadership Institute

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

While technically defined as two consecutive quarters of negative GDP growth, a recession is more felt as the general malaise of a contracting economy: declines in business revenue and profit, decreases in spending, and pressure to cut costs and eliminate jobs. Are you viewed as a commodity or a business partner? of your events?

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Contracts 2009 Site Selections Insurance 80

Master the Event

APRIL 5, 2022

Quick started ENTCO International and it quickly grew to include special event production, destination management, site selection, conference organization and contract negotiation. ENTCO International prides themselves on providing outstanding and cost effective conference and event resources and services.

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Event Leadership Institute

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Further, just because some groups decide to move forward with an in-person event doesn’t mean it is safe or appropriate or worth the risk for everyone else. With demand for in-person event venues and vendors at historically low levels, expect supply to contract. Outlier examples don’t prove or disprove a hypothesis. Venues will close.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 15, 2018

He’s based in Thailand and will help planners with site selection and contract negotiation throughout the Asian market. Previously, he worked for American Airlines Arena and Heat Group as senior event manager and event staffing manager. Maytas Jiwalai Jiwalai joined ConferenceDirect as director of global accounts.

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Hotels Site Selections Airlines 2015 58

SmartMeetings

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Read More : Tiki Cocktails, Christmas Movies and Land Rovers: Where to Take Your Group for the Holidays. Safety needs to be considered before, during and after site selection. In anticipation of stiff competition, planners need to make decisions quickly, even if planning a holiday event begins far in advance.

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Site Selections Venues Hotels Contracts 105

SmartMeetings

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

This personalized and complimentary site-selection service begins with a consultative approach, focusing on the client’s specific needs to secure the best available group rates at ideal properties. .: With a best-in-class meetings and events experience, Smart Meetings 360 is the ultimate service for the modern planner.

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SmartMeetings

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

First, says Steve Enselein, senior vice president of events for Hyatt Hotels, planners should ask during the site-selection process about the training the service staff receives, as well as the average tenure of staff at the property. Ask to See Hotels’ Customer-Satisfaction Surveys. Provide the Hotel with Details ASAP.

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Meetings Food and Beverage Hotels Site Selections 70

Connect Your Meetings

JULY 18, 2019

ITA Group Ensuring Safe & Secure Practices. _. She plays an integral role for the company through event design and plan formulation, event oversight, vendor and venue contract negotiations and management, and site selection for meetings and event. Incentive Research Foundation (IRF) Event Disruption Study.

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SmartMeetings

AUGUST 3, 2016

Meeting and event professionals, particularly those planning group trips abroad, can learn from these suggested measures. The mosquito-borne virus, which causes babies born to women who contracted Zika during pregnancy to be more vulnerable to severe birth defects, has led several prominent athletes to skip the Rio Olympics.

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2016 Transportation Contracts Site Selections 40

Capterra Event Management

APRIL 25, 2017

Even if you have previous experience organizing events for a company, organization, or local group, it is always best to have some formal certification which solidifies your experience for clients. Venue Selection. Site Selection. Not to mention, there is always something new to learn. Price: $345 – $875. Aesthetics.

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Plan Your Meetings

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

If you need expert assistance negotiating contracts or finding sites, hiring a third-party planner might be necessary. But working with a CVB is the fastest way to save time and money during the research, site-selection and planning process because of the local knowledge, contacts and relationships they bring to the table.

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Site Selections Negotiating Hotels Contracts 28

Capterra Event Management

JANUARY 31, 2017

Emory University’s Event Planning course is a hybrid of online and in-person training, using many of the same techniques used in traditional classrooms such as Q&A sessions and group projects. Venue Selection. Site Selection. Vendor/Contract Management. Course Topics: Event Budgeting. Wedding Planning Strategy.

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Event Planning Contracts Social Media Event Management 40

Plan Your Meetings

JUNE 27, 2016

Manage contracts. Depending on your meeting location, it may be necessary to travel with or contract security teams. Create a call for proposal, go over submissions and select candidates. Then communicate expectations, set deadlines for deliverables and secure contracts. Develop selection criteria. Identify risks.

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Meetings Food and Beverage Risk Management Contracts 62

PCMA Convene

MARCH 1, 2018

In late January, Marriott International reduced payouts to third-party planning groups with a 3-percent cut to the long-established 10-percent commission structure. . On one side, site-selection companies allow hotels to run leaner. In any given year, site-selection companies book hundreds of millions of room revenue dollars.

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Site Selections Food and Beverage Contracts Negotiating 67

PCMA Convene

MARCH 10, 2021

It wasn’t COVID-19 that kept Sandra Geiger, a global account executive with ConferenceDirect, from visiting Hotel Effie, a 250-room hotel in Sandestin, Florida, before she signed a contract for an association group meeting in July — it was because the hotel was still under construction. Virtual Site Visits.

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Venues Meetings Hotels Contracts 97

Endless Events

AUGUST 17, 2018

The cuts on hotel commissions are making site selection an inadequate revenue stream for many third-party planners. This is despite the steady increase in hotel bookings for business groups and events. Van Halen, M&Ms, and the Wisdom in the Contract Details. Click To Tweet. Tips for Growing Your Event Revenue.

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Conference Contracts B2B Speakers 78

PCMA Convene

JULY 31, 2017

She researched our group, and asked the right questions to get to know us and understand our challenges. Director of Group Sales, Westin Cleveland Downtown. She takes the time to get to know the group, and understands what’s important to them. She is always available and goes the extra mile for our group. Hotel Sales.

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2017 Trade Shows Insurance Food and Beverage 76

PCMA Convene

APRIL 11, 2017

Meanwhile, similar bathroom bills are being considered in other states — 16 as of last month, according to CNN — which can certainly affect a planner’s site-selection process. “I always tell them that coming up with the contract language is easy,” Hilliard said. It’s admirable.” ”

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Contracts Government Site Selections 2015 53

SmartMeetings

JUNE 22, 2017

It starts with site selections—being aware of city and state policies, including laws that could be discriminatory,” Clapes says. It allows you back out of a contract without liability or damage costs if that state begins enacting any anti-LGBT legislation between the time of signing the contact and the time of program execution.

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Meetings Site Selections Negotiating Speakers 90

MeetingsNet

MAY 18, 2023

Mary Louise Isaacson and Ben Waxman, wrote to Ken Reed, general manager at the property, expressing their disappointment in the hotel’s decision to host the group. Reed added that, “Our accommodation of certain guests or groups cannot be seen as support for or an endorsement of any particular set of beliefs. Nikil Saval and State Reps.

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PCMA Convene

MAY 1, 2016

From the onset of the site-selection process, collaboration among public, private, and civic organizations was the cornerstone of Cleveland’s effort to attract either of the 2016 political conventions. How did your CVB participate in site visits? Cleveland was one of those cities.

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Site Selections 2014 2016 Hotels 56

PCMA Convene

OCTOBER 31, 2016

that February to present to the Republican National Committee’s Site Selection Committee. A month later, representatives from the selection committee visited Cleveland, and the city moved to the next round of the competition. “It That’s why you group up on your business and create demand in some other areas.”.

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